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opens in percentage terms. s&p would open down about 3.5%. dow futures down by 2.7%. the nasdaq down 3.4%. counterfactual here from the fear mongers. i think the sun will come up tomorrow. the european markets are having a rougher go of things this morning. ftsi down, the dax over a 6.5%. the cac in france down 7.9%. italy stocks down close to 10% and in spain the ibex is over 10%. concern about weaker potential economies what would happen if after brexit the rest of the european union starts to fall apart let s start working on. we have grexit as a word. italian-exit. span-exit. port-u-go. we need to start working on the signs. i think it s already gone someone told me. some that ugly looking thing. let s look at the currency markets that is where much of the havoc had played out again. the pound had gone into this on the assumption that this vote would go and the uk would actually remain. as a result we saw the pound almost at 150 yesterday. right no ....
the world was supposed to end and it didn t. it has been the same case with the ftse. ftse is right at 6% yesterday and bringing it back to higher levels. i know he wanted to hear this. i wanted to tell him this. no, no. it s not about me. never about me, but mark grant is going to come on. thus far you have been right. mark grant is going to come on and say it s not the uk shouldn t be the ones worried, it s the eu that should be worried. sterling has gotten hit pretty hard. jim paulson is going to come on tomorrow and say the same thing. call it a wom went to cast right now because it s a little bit too progressive. have you heard that. i have no the. they have a show. you heard that from what, your twitter followers. don t you see that. we ll share with our twitter followers. you go wild, don t you. when the cats away, the mouse will play. it s like video new york times not bad? no? no, no. what did holeman say last night. ....
world wide exchange. i m sara eisen. i m wilfred frost. very good morning to you from me as well. it s throw back thursday. we re throwing it back with a girl powered theme today. i hope we have some spice girls coming up. anything to get the spice girl sboos world wide exchange. let s get straight to the top news. a ton of earnings this morning. if you went to sleep early last night, here s what happened at the democratic national convention in philadelphia. president obama taking center stage in prime time vouching for hillary clinton and making a point to say she would protect democracy from home grown demagogues like donald trump. no matter how much people try to knock her down, she never, ever quits. that is the hillary i know. that is the hillary i ve come to admire and that s why i can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman, not me, not bill, nobody more qualified than hillary clinton to serve as president of the united states of ....
movers this morning, grow upon shares as that company reports a smaller second quarter loss and raises full year outlook. adding more than 1 million new customers. that s the most in two years. stock is up by 23% and ceo will be on squawk box in an first on cnbc interview. that is at 8:40 a.m. eastern time. amgen tops estimates. that stock basically unchanged. cheesecake tractfactory repg better than expected profit. still upping stock buyback plan. up about 1.5%. we have more here. groupon. is that going to be around? we are going to talk to the ceo and i suspect he will tell you he plans to be around. it was 25, 25 dollar stock once so it s up today. is it are a real. it s a real company. i bet the $6 billion offer they got from google a few years ago is pretty good right now. let s talk about alphabet. google now is a verb. it s probably known in every language. then there was another one that decided changes the name. and totally ruins years. p whe ....
norway conducted by norwegians it was obvious to partner up with the norwegian embassy soar to say a few words to our friends specifically to the minister counselor for communication and cultural affairs and education at the norwegian embassy he served in washington for about 10 months and previously in the immediately preceding was in at the foreign ministry but also in good diplomatic fashioning countries as well as in the kansas to land and morocco and the entire region embassy are good friends who have a number of interesting evens with them we re delighted to work with them and have them here so perhaps a few words from our norwegian friends? [applause] good evening. we re glad to work with best buy museum. thank you for this program to hear about the events to hear about the history of my own country and it does not take a bigger part to reshape the world s history because that might have been devastating so just a few days ago in norway celebrated the 71st anni ....